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Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration: : Special Edition for Laureate Education, Inc.

By: Jim Knight

Expert guidance on coaching and mentoring

Mentors and coaches play a vital role in the teaching profession by providing support, training, and collegiality, alleviating the isolation so often experienced by beginning teachers. Coaching expert Jim Knight brought together leading-edge scholars and practitioners of K–12 professional development for this compilation of their visions of coaching, including:

Differentiated coaching
Instructional coaching
Content coaching
Cognitive coaching

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412969697
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 296
Publication date: July 10, 2008

Price: $43.95

Description

This book is a featured text in a Canter graduate course, Teacher Leadership: Mentoring, Coaching and Collaboration.

Expert guidance on coaching and mentoring

Mentors and coaches play a vital role in the teaching profession by providing support, training, and collegiality, alleviating the isolation that teachers so often experience. Coaching expert Jim Knight brought together leading-edge scholars and practitioners of K-12 professional development for this compilation of their visions of coaching, including:

Mentoring
Instructional coaching
Content coaching
Cognitive coaching

Additional topics include mentoring beginning teachers, intergenerational considerations, and working with different personality types. These excellent insights from experienced coaches are especially valuable in supporting teachers in meeting today’s accountability challenges.

Join Jim Knight and other experts at the 2014 Instructional Coaching Conference to explore how whole school reform is enhanced when principals, teachers, and coaches use collaborative planning and effective Instructional Coaching techniques to improve student learning: www.corwin.com/tlc

Author(s)

Jim Knight

Jim Knight has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching. He is a Research Associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and the President of the Instructional Coaching Group.

Jim wrote the first article on the topic of instructional coaching for The Journal of Staff Development, and his book Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction (Corwin, 2007) popularized the idea. Jim edited Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives (Corwin, 2009) and co-authored Coaching Classroom Management (Pacific Northwest Publishing, 2010). Jim’s other books include Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach to Dramatically Improving Instruction (Corwin, 2011), High-Impact Instruction: A Framework or Great Teaching (Corwin, 2013), and Focus on Teaching: Using Video for High-Impact Instruction (Corwin, 2014).

Jim’s articles on professional learning, teaching, and instructional coaching have appeared in journals such as The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, Kappan, and Educational Leadership.

Frequently asked to lead professional learning, Jim has presented to more than 30,000 educators from six continents. He has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Kansas and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards. Jim also writes the Radical Learners blog.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction to Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives

Chapter 1. Passing the Torch

Chapter 2. Coaches' Roles, Responsibilities, and Reach

Chapter 3. Working as a Partner With the Adult Learner

Chapter 4. The Generations at Work in Schools

Chapter 5. Teacher to Teacher: Personality and Communication

Chapter 6. Differentiated Coaching: Changing Your Approach to Meet Teacher Needs

Chapter 7. Stages in Teacher Development

Chapter 8. Practical Strategies for Assisting New Teachers

Chapter 9. Instructional Coaching

Chapter 10. Content Coaching: Transforming the Teaching Profession

Chapter 11. Cognitive Coaching

Chapter 12. Partnership Communication: Creating Learning Conversations

Chapter 13. Overcoming Obstacles and Reaping the Rewards

Chapter 14. Coaches as Leaders of Change

Index

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